Toronto Trail Race Series Guide

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Toronto Trail Race Series Guide

Want to learn about some of the trail running series happening in and around the greater Toronto area this year? Great! The RunGuides 2017 Toronto Trail Race Series Guide is here to help! Get race series summaries, learn about any cool stuff you can earn for completing a series, and most importantly, get the number of guilt free doughnuts that running a series earns you!

5 Peaks is a Canada wide group of races with specific series for each province they they operate in. The 2017 Ontario series of events happens in parks just outside of Toronto. The races offer short and medium distance courses plus kids races, making them great for beginner/intermediate trail runners and families!

MEC is offering a brand new series low cost, chip timed trail races in 2017. The events are slated to happen in locations around the Northern part of the greater Toronto, hosted by the North York store.

The Ontario Ultra and Trail Race Series are two trail running series that allow runners to compete in a group of races across Ontario. Not entirely Toronto specific but definitely worth including in this list! The series splits races into two categories; trail runs (anything less than a marathon, usually 25 ish km) and ultras (anything longer than a marathon). Most of these races are trail, there area few road ultras in the mix but we're including them anyway.

Total Distance if you run all the events: 142.53 km - 1,110 km + 6 hours of racing

How many donuts could possibly compensate for all that training and racing?

Ahahahahahaha! YOU GET LIMITLESS DOUGHNUTS!!!!

Do you get anything cool for completing the entire series?

There is a whole awards system around the series. Details about that here: http://www.outrace.ca/rules. We're also pretty sure that any runners who finish the entire series are visited by trail running spirits who will grant them years of good fortune.

Did we miss an important series? Let us know through the comments below! Or, if you’re looking for more races, check out our full calendar of Toronto runs and races at www.runguides.com/toronto/runs.